Newtown: The issue is guns, not sanity

As a parent, my heart goes out to the parents and families of those killed in Connecticut on Dec. 14, as well as the parents who need to help their surviving children deal with this tragedy. Their lives are forever changed.

I am frustrated and angered by our nation's continued paralysis in dealing with these massacres. Today, many are asking for a delay in response so that we may find out "why" it occurred. The only pause warranted is to allow for the appropriate mourning, not the traditional stonewalling rhetoric of gun advocates - waiting to get more information to understand "why" Adam Lanza killed. It doesn't matter whether he was sane or not. What matters is that he had the firepower to kill 26 people - 20 defenseless kids at their school.

Enough is enough! The issue is guns. An attacker with a knife cannot inflict the same damage as with an automatic weapon, regardless of their sanity.

Gun advocates - get over it. Regardless of the Supreme Court's recent rulings, the Second Amendment does not guarantee the individual the right to bear arms. Our Founding Fathers were having a state's rights vs. federal government debate.

It's time for the president to act unilaterally - to take "meaningful action" - and ban handguns and semi- and fully-automatic weapons, because we cannot trust a Congress supported by the pro-gun lobby to act. Times have changed. Our laws must too. Now!

Jim Flanagan

Carmel

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Newtown: The issue is guns, not sanity

As a parent, my heart goes out to the parents and families of those killed in Connecticut on Dec. 14, as well as the parents who need to help their surviving children deal with this tragedy. Their

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